REDLIGHT, GREENLIGHT, LIMELIGHT: Hollywood Journalism 101

“A humorous fame expose from Hollywood to Cannes and back... a cross between Pauline Kael’s ‘I Lost it At the Movies’ and ‘Bridget Jones Diary’ with a real Bridget, by an insider celebrity journalist who can still eat lunch in this town.” -- Anonymous

REDLIGHT, GREENLIGHT, LIMELIGHT is the real-life professional adventures of a celebrity journalist on the red carpet in Los Angeles covering everything in Hollywood from the EMMY’s, Oscar after-parties, to Snoop Dogg’s 187 murder trial. Written for the high-brow, low-brow, and unibrow, the book reveals moments with luminaries from HRH Prince Charles on his opinion of Colonials, Jon Hamm predicting his EMMY Best Actor loss, Danny DeVito slightly tipsy, Tom Hanks stumping for SAG, and Jackass’s Steve-O fresh from his 5150 at Cedars Sinai. In-depth star interviews include Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Kirk Douglas, Lynn Redgrave, Brittany Murphy, Corey Haim, Adam Lambert, Sharon Osbourne, Max Von Sydow, Bill Engvall, Spalding Gray. These insider moments are paired with behind the scenes confessionals; there’s a glimpse into Jennifer Lawrence before and after her Oscar win for Silver Linings Playbook, a note from her, and a true story about who taught her to parallel park on the CBS lot.

Gems in REDLIGHT, GREENLIGHT, LIMELIGHT include Gore Vidal’s unanswered letter to President Obama, Kirk Douglas’ history making night at 96 with De Niro, and the lost wisdom of Spalding Gray, as well as Kathy Griffin’s take on breaking up, and Paul Williams talking about writing “We’ve Only Just Begun.”

REDLIGHT, GREENLIGHT, LIMELIGHT is a guilty pleasure with enough substance - such as Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious explained by the man who wrote it for Walt Disney and what gets left out of the Los Angeles Times in an edit session - that is doesn’t feel like pop-sugar gossip but a breezy entertaining treat for all ages.